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Tired of procrastinating? To overcome it, take the time to understand it
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1281" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://ideas.ted.com/tired-of-procrastinating-to-overcome-it-take-the-time-to-understand-it/" target="_blank"><strong>Tired of procrastinating? To overcome it, take the time to understand it - Ideas.TED.com</strong></a><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Procrastination isn’t shameful or a character flaw. Instead it’s rooted in a very human need: the need to feel competent and worthy, says educator Nic Voge.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>“It’s 11 o’clock. </strong>You’re in your dorm room, and you have a paper due in a day or so. You sit down at your desk, you open up your laptop to get started, and then you think, ‘I’m gonna check my email just for a minute; get that out of the way.’ Forty-five minutes later, you’ve checked a lot of email,” says <a href="https://mcgraw.princeton.edu/people/nic-voge" target="_blank">Nic Voge</a>, senior associate director of Princeton University’s McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning in New Jersey, in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52lZmIafep4" target="_blank">TEDxPrinceton talk</a>. “You’ve done a really good job of that, but now you realize, ‘You know what? I’m pretty tired. I’m kind of exhausted, and that’s not conducive to writing a good paper. What do I need? I need to go to sleep.” And you do — only to wake up and go through the whole cycle of delays-and-excuses the next day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1281, member: 1"] [URL='https://ideas.ted.com/tired-of-procrastinating-to-overcome-it-take-the-time-to-understand-it/'][B]Tired of procrastinating? To overcome it, take the time to understand it - Ideas.TED.com[/B][/URL][B] Procrastination isn’t shameful or a character flaw. Instead it’s rooted in a very human need: the need to feel competent and worthy, says educator Nic Voge. “It’s 11 o’clock. [/B]You’re in your dorm room, and you have a paper due in a day or so. You sit down at your desk, you open up your laptop to get started, and then you think, ‘I’m gonna check my email just for a minute; get that out of the way.’ Forty-five minutes later, you’ve checked a lot of email,” says [URL='https://mcgraw.princeton.edu/people/nic-voge']Nic Voge[/URL], senior associate director of Princeton University’s McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning in New Jersey, in a [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52lZmIafep4']TEDxPrinceton talk[/URL]. “You’ve done a really good job of that, but now you realize, ‘You know what? I’m pretty tired. I’m kind of exhausted, and that’s not conducive to writing a good paper. What do I need? I need to go to sleep.” And you do — only to wake up and go through the whole cycle of delays-and-excuses the next day. [/QUOTE]
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